The following story shows up on facebook/twitter/somewhere every few months or so. I do enjoy such things, but also love scouring the tubes for history and reality. Sites like snopes.com and archive.org are useful tools. Here’s the image:
A few points:
- Granted 4 is not a majority of 10, but more hate Math (according to this poll) than any other subject
- This is an AP (Associated Press) story that was circulated by many outlets and organizations, and it appears one created this bogus title
- I’m not sure if the bogus title was intentional (as a joke), or legitimately false — but will assume the former :)
See this article (with a different title) at CNN.com here if you’re curious.
Next task: find where the copy with this title originated, and optionally the intent of said title.
I believe what you said was very reasonable. However, think on this, suppose you were to
write a awesome post title? I ain’t suggesting your information isn’t good, however suppose you added a post title to maybe grab a person’s attention? I mean We
hate math, say 4 in 10 — a majority of Americans – Philip Olson lived here is a little vanilla.
You should look at Yahoo’s home page and see how they create news titles to
get people to open the links. You might try adding a video or a pic or two to grab people excited about what you’ve got to say.
In my opinion, it might bring your blog a little livelier.